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100

Clues are presented as answers and contestants must phrase their responses in this format.

What is A question?

100

For Final Jeopardy contestants must write down a wager from $0 to their entire score and the response to the question in this many seconds.

What is 30?

100

This person created Jeopardy.

Who is Merv Griffin?

100

Nancy Zerg has the record of this many consecutive wins

What is 75?

100

If a player has less than or equal to this value by Double Jeopardy, they are immediately disqualified

What is $0

200

There are three rounds, Jeopardy, Double Jeopardy, and this round.

What is Final Jeopardy?

200

Spelling doesn’t matter as long as the answer is phonetically correct. The exception is this.

What is When the category/question asks for the correct spelling?

200

The theme song of Jeopardy was originally this

What is a lullaby?

200

Banned wagers include $69, $666, $14, $88, and this amount

What is $1488?

200

Free Pass

Jeopardy doesn’t know what will happen if all three contestants have $0 or negative values after Double Jeopardy.

300

Contestants use this to ring in, but they can not use this until the host has finished stating the question.

What is A buzzer? 

300

The person with the most of this is the winner and continues to the next round.

What is $$$?

300

This person was the first host of Jeopardy

Who is Art Fleming?

300

Jeopardy has won 45+ of these awards

What are Emmy Awards?

300

Jeopardy has over 9,000 of these

What are episodes?

400

Correct answers=more of this

Wrong answers=less of this

What is $$$?

400

I chose this icon because Jeopardy needs this to function and these are very interesting and complex.

What is: Rules?

400

This person hosted over 8,000 episodes of Jeopardy

Who is Alex Trebek?

400

This was the lowest score recorded

What is -$6,800?

400

James Holzhauer won this amazing amount of money in one day of Jeopardy.

What is $131,127?

500

One clue in the Jeopardy round and two in the Double Jeopardy round are these. Only the person who selected this can answer and they must wager an amount of their choice. These are hidden around the game board.

What is a Daily Double?

500

I chose this icon because Jeopardy has many terms that people who don’t play Jeopardy know about like lecterns, wager, and money. Money because many people think that it’s actually points.

What is: Language of the Discipline?

500

This many episodes are taped in a day

What is five?

500

The podiums in Jeopardy are actually called this

What are lecterns?

500

Not every game of Jeopardy has this

What is a winner?